(I wrote this on the anniversary of Cast Lead, Israel's
war on the people of Gaza in 2009...sadly...it seems even more appropriate
today)

About the author:Samah is a
Palestinian-Australian-Canadian writer, commentator, author, playwright and Social
Justice advocate. She has co-authored with her father, Abdel-Karim Sabawi, a
play “Cries from the Land” and produced it as a play (2003).In 2008 she
produced Three Wishes(, based on her adaptation of Deborah Ellis's book
"Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israelis Speak Out". Both were successfully staged in Canada. Her
two-city premier of her most recent play Tales of a City by the Sea, completed
a sold-out season in Melbourne in 2014 and also was staged in Palestine. Sabawi's essays and op-eds have appeared in
various media outlets and her poetry has been featured in various magazines and
books, most recently in an anthology published by West End Press titled With
Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century.

Samah Sabawi is former Executive Director and Media Spokesperson
for the National Council on Canada Arab Relations and former Public Advocate
for the Melbourne based advocacy group Australians for Palestine,

About Me

Gulamhusein A. Abba is an 88-year-old writer with more than 60 years in journalism. He is originally from Bombay (now Mumbai), where his writings have been published in almost all the important news media, in English, Urdu, Gujarati and Marathi, and where he functioned in various capacities, including reporter, news and political analyst, columnist, editor and publisher.
He was also a trade unionist,
peace and justice activist and took part in political activities.
As a trade unionist he organized the maritime petty officers and the film studio workers.
He founded and was the Chairman of the Rule of Law Committee and Taxi Users' Association
In the US, he is the chairman of Justice for Palestinians Committee, and, The Danbury Committee for World Peace.
In May of 2011, The Danbury Bar Association conferred on him the prestigious Honorary AMERICAN DREAM AWARD.